Honor Dale, niece to Oliver Cromwell, has good reason to hate the royalists. First they slaughtered her parents, and now the notorious Captain Hood has stolen her family’s jewels to fund the restoration of Charles Stuart to power. Gradually he steals her heart as well. But what is Hood’s true nature? Is he a charming, adventurous rake or a desperate nobleman fired by idealism?

It’s 1585 at Gosford’s End in the Scottish Highlands where 17-year-old Sorcha Fraser is impatient for life to begin. Graced with beauty and spirit, she doesn’t have long to wait. While out riding, Sorcha meets a young man in priestly robes. From henceforth, as they negotiate the intrigues of the Scottish court, their lives will be intrinsically linked, though fate continues to tear them apart.